That one hinge I fought for three hours last Saturday

I was rebinding an old textbook from the 1940s, and the original hinges were these tiny brass things with screws that looked like they were from another planet. I spent a solid three hours just trying to get one of them off without destroying the board underneath. By the end I had to just slice through the hinge with a jeweler's saw and patch the hole. Has anyone else run into weird old hardware that makes you question your whole approach?

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evac728d ago

That jeweler's saw trick is genius, never would have thought of that. Those old 40s screws just seem to weld themselves in place after a few decades.

lindareed8d ago

Nah, I'm with @evac72 here - that trick sounds like it saved the project rather than a failure. Sometimes the "right" approach is whatever stops you from throwing the book against the wall.